Hi Andrew,
"Andrew M. Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Colin Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "Andrew M. Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Colin Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > With the new version 2.6 (from Debian unstable, if that matters), I
> > > > do not see a way to get the full cache index anymore (called "Latest"
> > > > in older versions, IIRC). Is there a way to get it back?
> > >
> > > This index option has been removed from the latest version.
>
> > > The reasons for doing this are that it took too long to create (it
> > > needed to search through all hosts to find the newest files) and there
> >
> > IIRC all it took stopping the creation process is to press the Stop
> > button in ones browser, no? Have there been actual complaints from
> > users who were accidentally accessing this index and couldn't stop it?
>
> No, this would just stop the browser displaying the page, the indexing
> would continue in the background.
Ah, okay.
> Using htDig (or other search engine) is definitely the way to go. If
> you get htdig to index all the cached files every night then you can
> search for a word anywhere in the cache (not just in the URL) in a few
> seconds. It beats trying to remember what the name of the URL was and
> looking through a list of 200 files from the last 30 days.
At least in Debian's default configuration, it doesn't find file names
(I'll have to look into that). It also doesn't find all occurrences of
text, just some; not sure why.
> Have you tried using the "Date changed" sort order in the http index?
> It will show you the hosts whose pages you have visited in date
> order. You can then try likely hosts and they will also be sorted in
> date order.
It helps a bit, yes, but it still is no full list. I cannot copy the
full link out of the page and paste it into emacs, for instance,
unless I have gone all the way to the end, or just copy all of the
links and search with emacs (M-x "occur" anyone?).
> I really don't want to add this index back in again (in case you
> hadn't guessed).
:-/
Looks like I will put the 2.5c package on hold for now. I don't miss
any functionality there, and it did it's job nicely.
Cheers,
Colin
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